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Get Your IT Career In Gear!

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This book is a must for all IT professionals! It contains information relevant to most, if not all, IT careers whether you are looking for changing your career or just keeping yourself marketable. Ms. Goff includes great interviews with people in all aspects of IT. The interviews include job descriptions, the good and bad parts to a particular position, and some helpful hints and ideas (there is a great interview with the creator of the Elvis Presley/Graceland web site!). Ms Goff introduces you to many IT careers and tells you what are the related skills you need for that position. She also helps you decide if a job is right for you (I really liked reading about the different postions and learning what skills are needed in each position and what type of person is usually good in that position). She gives examples and tells how people have successfully transitioned either into IT from other fields or parlayed their position into a new position. This book has given me ideas for keeping myself up to date and how to use what I know already to advance my career or change areas and how to decide what I want to do next.

If you want to get into IT, this book presents a great description of what it is really like to work in IT.

If you already work in IT, this book makes you feel better with similar frustrations from other people.

I already work in IT and I was not very interested in hearing other people complain about how overworked they are. Yeah, I know, I'm in the same boat.

Here's a better way to get your IT career in gear - get your degree and get certified in your area of interest. That's it, no secret, really.

Succinct, authoritative, indispensable. One wonders where this book has been. Goff makes it seem so simple. Could it really be? But finally there is a voice that spells it out. A great read that we've waited for forever. A must for the changing marketplace.

But a little dated. Be sure to also check out Ian Fisher's "How to Start a Career in Information Technology, 2nd edition" 2007.

I am writing this review to let all the potential career-changers out there know that they shouldn't be afraid of following their passion for computers.

"Get Your IT Career In Gear!" will help you see how you can leverage what you already know and create the rewarding career you have always wanted.

I am passionte about this book because a big part of my company exists to help people create rewarding, independent computer careers.

So, anyone who wants to learn about the requirements, hot job markets, everyday life, and how to get your first job, for almost all the computer careers out there, read this book!

~ Michael Nigohosian, Author: "The Secret Path to Contract Programming Riches: An Expert Consultant's Step-by-Step Guide That Takes You from Having Little or No Computer Programming Experience, Virtually, Directly into High-Paid Contract Programming"